Journal
INSECTS
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/insects10110375
Keywords
Desiccation; phenotypic plasticity; local adaptation; mosquito-borne disease; vapor pressure; Diptera; Culicidae
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- National Science Foundation [DEB-1654417]
- United States Department of Agriculture [2018-67013]
- University of Cincinnati faculty development fund
- Wieman Wendell Benedict fund
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Diseases that are transmitted by mosquitoes are a tremendous health and socioeconomic burden with hundreds of millions of people being impacted by mosquito-borne illnesses annually. Many factors have been implicated and extensively studied in disease transmission dynamics, but knowledge regarding how dehydration impacts mosquito physiology, behavior, and resulting mosquito-borne disease transmission remain underdeveloped. The lapse in understanding on how mosquitoes respond to dehydration stress likely obscures our ability to effectively study mosquito physiology, behavior, and vectorial capabilities. The goal of this review is to develop a profile of factors underlying mosquito biology that are altered by dehydration and the implications that are related to disease transmission.
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